Try this home-cooked Seafood Boil with Cajun Butter Sauce without breaking the bank. Fresh and premium quality seafood is a rather rare delicacy, especially for those far from the sea. Sometimes, it is available in restaurants, but these dishes could cost you a fortune depending on where you decide to dine. Thus, cooking it at home is a welcome idea for all.
Savor the broth that has seeped into the ingredients, and enjoy enhancing the deliciousness of everything by dipping it into the freshly made Cajun Butter sauce. All the juices will coat your taste buds in an array of flavors that will surely amaze you and your family.
Seafood Boil with Cajun Butter Sauce
Ingredients
Set A (Poaching Liquid):
- 5 cups water
- 4 Tbsps. Old Bay seasoning
- 2 Tbsps. smoked paprika
- 1 Tbsp. ground black pepper
- 2 1/2 Tbsps. sugar
- 1 Tbsp. salt
- 1 pc. onion, chopped
- 6 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 pc. lemon
Set B:
- 2 pcs. Hungarian sausage
- 2 pcs. potato
- 2 ears of corn, cut off the cob into 2-inch pieces
Set C:
- 1/4 kg. shrimp, rinsed
- 1/2 kg. halaan
- 3 crabs
For the Cajun Butter Sauce:
- Olive oil
- 4 Tbsps. garlic, chopped
- 1 Tbsp. onion, minced
- 1 Tbsp. Old Bay seasoning (optional)
- 2 Tbsps. hot sauce
- 1/2 bar unsalted butter, melted
- 2 Tbsps. brown sugar
- 4 Tbsps. lemon juice, halved
- 1 Tbsp. parsley, chopped
- Salt, to taste
- Black pepper, to taste
Garnish:
- Chopped parsley
- Sliced lemon
Instructions
- In a pot of boiling water, add the onion, salt, Old Bay seasoning, paprika, sugar, and lemon.
- When all the flavors have fully incorporated with each other, add the potatoes, corn, and Hungarian sausages.
- Devein the shrimp and cut the crabs in half. Soak the manila clams in salted water to clean them.
- In a pan, heat the oil. Sauté the garlic, onion, Old Bay seasoning, hot sauce, butter, and brown sugar. Mix well. Once all the butter has melted, finish it with lemon juice and parsley, and season with salt and black pepper.
- Add the crabs, shrimps, and clams When the potatoes and corn have softened, and the Hungarian sausages are cooked. Mix it so everything gets soaked in the soup.
- Remove the corn, potatoes, and Hungarian sausages from the pot, then place it in the sauce.
- When the crab, shrimp, and clams are cooked, remove them from the pot and arrange them on a plate. Pour the sauce over everything and sprinkle fresh parsley on top.
Relish in the delight of slurping through the shell of a crab, scraping the edible portion out of the opened clam shell, and peeling off perfectly cooked shrimps. It is arduous work, especially if you are not used to it, but the delectable essence of seafood is worth all that effort.
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